Fate Core?

[S Ferguson]

@ Valarien: If you need any Zombie fighters, I'm game. Despise them. Never met one I liked (they aren't too talkative, mind you). I played Stargate (the one based off the Spycraft system) and found it a reasonable approximation with the early seasons, fighting the Goa'uld, but as soon as you hit the replicators or the Aurai, it kind of fell apart. I'd be curious to know how you plan to work around this. I personally found when it was switched to a later Stargate: Atlantis setting things ran a little more smoothly. With FATE I managed to get a good gel with Battlestar Galactica (new series, not old) and moved Cyberpunk 2030 successfully; but I'm still (after a while) working my way through the Toolkit to better handle SyFy the way I think it should be run - not so pulpy, and with a little more player involvement. Any suggestions?

@ Mask: Sorry for the misunderstanding. Actually I've run one game of FATE right off the CoreRPG, and actually, for the Demolished Ones, it seems a perfect fit. I was thinking along the lines of the other games you mentioned, Notably SoTC and The Dresden Files. Try FATE Core at some point, if for nothing but an interesting read. It has a lot of optional (not that everything is "optional" in RPGs) rules that can ease any player and GM into the system. It's a Pay-What-You-Want product on RPGNow, and well worth the donation. It even impressed me enough to pick up the hardcopies (gosh, I love books ).

Cheers,
SF

[Valarian]

Fate should be able to scale up as far as needed. The Ori would have some nice aspects. I'll be using the setting, not the system.

[Mask_of_winter]

@ Mask: Sorry for the misunderstanding. Actually I've run one game of FATE right off the CoreRPG, and actually, for the Demolished Ones, it seems a perfect fit. I was thinking along the lines of the other games you mentioned, Notably SoTC and The Dresden Files. Try FATE Core at some point, if for nothing but an interesting read. It has a lot of optional (not that everything is "optional" in RPGs) rules that can ease any player and GM into the system. It's a Pay-What-You-Want product on RPGNow, and well worth the donation. It even impressed me enough to pick up the hardcopies (gosh, I love books ).

Cheers,
SF

Yep, got it. The toolkit too. I'm a rpgnow junkie lol

[S Ferguson]

Fate should be able to scale up as far as needed. The Ori would have some nice aspects. I'll be using the setting, not the system.

Just off the top of my hat, how would you set up the setting aspects? FATE will do pretty much everything, I'm just trying to wrap my head around the character/setting aspect phase. Everybody would probably know someone through, say, military service, or reputation, so that's taken care of; what would be an example of the setting aspects (I can think of a few but they're anything but original ).

[S Ferguson]

Yep, got it. The toolkit too. I'm a rpgnow junkie lol

Ditto. And I really LOVE the pay what you want deals. Lol. Not too often you can pick up five decent games for a fin.

Cheers,
SF

[Valarian]

Stargate SG-1 - Season 9 Aspects
Stargate Command is a secret programme (common through all of the series I would think)
SGC Mission is to protect Earth
Department of Homeworld Security
Threat from the Ori and their followers
The Ori are Ascended Beings
The Priors have strange powers
Galactic Supergates are being built

[S Ferguson]

It was only "secret" until the beginning of SG:A when civilians came in, I think it went semi-public to full public in SG:Universe. For Stargate, it was need-to-know amongst the Russians and Americans, and only a few civvies were "let in on the secret," Jackson being a prime example. But don't quote me on this, it's been a while since I've seen it.

[Valarian]

I think it's secret throughout. You still need clearance to know about the Stargate. What does change is that it goes beyond just the US and Russia, becoming an international thing. Still not public, but known to most government leaders.

[Michael Hopcroft]

IIRC, at the end of the original movie O'Neill (or the analogous character played by Kurt Russell) decided to destroy the Stargate from the Earth side (he was originally going to do it on the alien-planet side, but ended up using the bomb elsewhere and would have had to go back to Earth for another one anyway). Which begs the question of why an Earth that didn't want contact with the aliens would bother with Stargate Command and not simply blow up the gates wherever they found them oN Earth and deny aliens access to the planet that way?

I also don't know what happened with the producers and RPG designer Richard Tucholka. His game Fringeworthy was about ten years before Stargate and he had reason to believe his intellectual property had been stolen by the studio.

[Valarian]

Made a start on a CoreRPG version of a Fate Core ruleset. The main character sheet windows are laid out. I just need to add the content.
The main tab will be based on the current Dresden Files layout (see below). I'll post a comparison screenshot when the tab is complete.